Issue #4 – Education

The issue’s topic revolves around Education and will challenge our anthropogenic philosophies.

It will be an exploration into what education actually means and what alternative philosophies could replace the current, education is for getting a good job and becoming a productive worker, expanding the economy, to something more holistic, more socially beneficial and more forward thinking.

All of this can be answered with fictional stories, philosophical papers, poems or personal essays.

Genre Fit

Symphonies of Imagination is looking for revolutionary, unconventional writing about our near future. How will we manage a world that changes drastically in unpredictable ways? What will happen when humanity is hit by the fast approaching limits of our reckless behaviour and accepted standards break down presenting new challenges? These themes can be either the central focus or the background of the work.

Writing can come either as fictional short stories that explores these ideas in the present or near future. It is not Sci-Fi, rather possibilities that haven’t arrived yet. These works can portray the ugly and beautiful, the harsh and the kind – but they all should be realistic.

The second type are essays and contributions showing radical new ways of doing things enabling normal people to commence action. Speculating in a more grounded manner, giving practical advise. Which can range from: how to reduce your energy consumption to how to organise elections. For an example read the excerpt of issue #2.

When it comes to length, there is no hard limit, from 100 to 7.000 words everything goes, after that eyes tend to get tired.

What we are not looking for is Sci-Fi, Post-Apocalyptic or stories that take place in such a technically advanced world that it could be conceived as magic, it should be grounded in reality.

We also accept poems.

Technical Compliance

Almost all document formats are accepted as long as we can open them. Should you not want to bother with formatting, feel free to send your work in the body of the email. We will get back to you as soon as possible, which is usually within 2 to 3 weeks.

Email Address

If all of this sounds good, please send your material our way using submissions@symphoniesofimagination.com with the subject line listing the name and type of your writing, your own name and the word count. A few sentences about yourself would be lovely as well.

Payment

We pay each writer for their work on a per word basis. The current compensation per word is USD $0.005, or in simple terms 1/2 a cent. Payment is upon publication. For poems we pay 20 USD.

Rights Management

All rights to your work belong to you! We will never ask you to give them up. We only ask humbly for the permission to publish it in one of our issues. Writers need to be in control of their work.